Why Are You Atheist/Agnostic?

Question

I am a faithful Christian and I want to know what causes you to be Atheist, Agnostic, a non-believer, whatever you might want to call it. How are you so sure that God doesn't exist? Why do you choose to believe this? Please give me as much information is you can, because honestly, I don't understand, and really want to know what causes you to be Atheist.

Here is the answer to all of your questions, Waltz. Look inside your heart and you will find God. Ask God to take a walk with you each morning for 30 days. At the end of that 30 days i guarantee you that you will be certain that God exists and that He loves you.

Answer 1

Until someone gives me a good argument for the existence of this creator being I have no choice but to consider it a fairy tale. I have heard hundreds of arguments but they are all deeply flawed and illogical.

Answer 2

I believe that there is a higher power. Which means I'm not atheist. I believe that humans could never really understand that higher being, which means that I'm an agnostic. I do not believe that Jesus was the son of God, maybe just a wise person, or maybe just a smooth talker, like Charles Manson. So therefore, definitely not Christian.

Things are not as cut and dry as you seem to think. Just because I'm not Christian, doesn't mean I don't think there's a higher power. Organized religions were created for the pure purpse of separating humanity. Throughout their creation they created doctrine to justify how they are better than everyone else and how if you don't believe like that you're going to hell, purely for the sake of self-preservation. I want no part of that.

Answer 3

1.) Is the Bible from God?
2.) How can you be sure of that? Because it says so?
3.) Does a catch-22 provide a logical foundation of beliefs?
4.) Can you distinguish this faith in Jesus from my childhood faith in Santa Claus?
5.) Were the authors of the Bible guided by the Holy Spirit?
6.) Can those claims be legitimately verified?
7.) I could write my own Bible and say I was guided by the Holy Spirit...does that make me a liar or a saint?
8.) Does the perfect harmony of the Bible's collected works prove it is from God, or have these collected works been edited and polished over the last two-thousand years by a variety of religious committees?
9.) Is archaeological proof valid, or has it been manipulated to prove bogus claims (Loch Ness footprints, etc...)?
10.) Do the fulfilled prophecies from the Bible prove that it is from God, or are they so vague that they would've had to come true eventually?
11.) Should I just trust my father and his father before him and his father before him, or should I take a forward step?
12.) Is it not our right as human beings to question the world around us, to rationalize with our "God-given" talent, to have faith in reality and preach against disillusionment, to reject a false sense of security used to comfort and control the masses?

If you can answer my questions then I'll be a Christian again.
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You are so brainwashed...that isn't God you see inside yourself, it's you! You're the one that helps you! You get your strength from you! (And why can't you answer my questions?)

Answer 4

I have seen nothing that shows that god exists. Almost everything can be explained without the need for a god and the things that cant be explained now will eventually be discovered and I don't expect any of the explanations to require a god.

Answer 5

I, personally, find many parts of the Bible purely nonbelievable. For example, a true good God would not slaughter so many innocent people. I understand and accept that some love and believe in God, but being Agnostic works for me.

Answer 6

Because no one can neither proove or disproove that god/goddess/gods/goddesses/them/it/they exist and no one can proove that these thing(s) created us or even care about us.

Therefore I will not take part in something I do not fully believe in. I neither can proove to my self or others that such thing(s) exist or such things do not exist.

So I am Agnostic.
;-)

Only humans write in books, even though some say it was "devine intervention", I believe old men wrote alot of the religous books, therefor they ARE NOT from a higher being they are from the guys who wrote what ever book.
Such books have been twisted to suit people's inhuman concquests and have been twisted also by what ever power structure or people in power think that it'll suit them most.
IT's a human thing, it was NOT writen by a devine thing.

Also,
due to this...
I think that it is Arrogant of human beings to say that they KNOW that such things exist or do not exist. To proclaim that you know something when you know nothing at all is a lie, and it's rude and twisted, and arrogant. It is rude to the very thing you wish to proove. It is rude to the belief(s) its self to proclaim such things, when we are ONLY human. The more humble thing to do, is admit that you know nothing about it at all.
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The people who are Atheist just simply believe that the prosuit of science will explain everything eventually. (key word here is eventually, because even though science is all there already, doesn't mean humans have the expertise yet to interpret it and find all the answers, with our knowledge of science growing, so will our understanding of our world and other things will grow with it). Science is ever changing because our understanding of the knowledge or how to interprate it is improving thus ever changing with more discoveries.

K

Answer 7

I am an Agnostic pretty much because I am not sure that God dosn't exist, but I am almost completly sure that, if there is a god, Christianity got it all wrong.

Answer 8

I'm an athiest because I don't believe that religion is the defualt choice. I think it makes more sense to not believe in any religion until something or someone proves me wrong than to have blind faith in it until i'm proven wrong. My opinion is that just because you can't explain certain things doesn't mean they have to be the work of an omnipotent being. I believe I was born athiest and unless something convinces me otherwise I will remain one.

Answer 9

Carl Sagan said: "Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence." There is no extraordinary evidence for the existence of a god...and Atheism is NOT a belief...it is a conviction.

Answer 10

I'll give you a bunch of links where you can read for yourself. There's a lot of ground to cover. But basically, Christianity is clearly false, if you look into its origins, and flaws and contradicitions in the bible, (among many many many other things...)

Links:

http://www.godisimaginary.com

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=5052156

http://www.arkedmin.org/Writings/CrucDocs/crucifiedsaviors.htm

http://www.religioustolerance.org/noah_com.htm

http://exchristian.com/sounds/Penn_and_Teller_Bullshit_Bible.wmv